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Peace in the “War Against Drugs” requires a radical rethinking of how America, and its neighbors, approach the illegal drug trade. A Narco History is an account of the economic disaster, mass migration of families fleeing violence, and chaos that has ensued as direct results of policy promulgated by the U.S. Government.

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Why aren’t the great, qualified women already in tech being hired or promoted? Should women seek to join an institution that is actively hostile to them? Edited by tech veteran Elissa Shevinsky, Lean Out sees a possible way forward that uses tech and creative disengagement to jettison 20th century corporate culture. More

TRADE IS WAR

The West’s War Against the World

Yash Tandon

In Trade Is War, Yash Tandon shows how the WTO is camouflaged in a rhetoric that hides its primary function as the servant of global business and that, for the vast majority of people, free trade not only hinders development — it visits relentless waves of violence and impoverishment on their lives. More

WATCHLIST

32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest

Bryan Hurt, editor

In Watchlist, some of today’s most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. More

@HEAVEN

The Online Death of a Cybernetic Futurist

Kim Hastreiter, editor

Edited and with an introduction by Paper editor Kim Hastreiter, @heaven reproduces the extraordinary exchange that took place on the early online community The WELL in the months leading up to the death of a Stanford futurist named Tom Mandel. More

CHAMELEO

A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security

Robert Guffey

Chameleo is a true account of a heroin addict who sheltered a U.S. Navy sailor who’d stolen night vision goggles and a few top secret files from a nearby Marine base. He found himself arrested and subsequently believed himself under intense government scrutiny — and, he suspected, the subject of bizarre electro-optical experimentation called “cloaking.” More

METHOD AND MADNESS

The hidden story of Israel’s assaults on Gaza

Norman G. Finkelstein

In this paradigm-shifting new book, Norman G. Finkelstein examines Israel’s major assaults on Gaza since 2008 and reveals the attacks have been designed to sabotage the possibility of a compromise peace with the Palestinians, even on terms that are favorable to it. More

NIGHTS AT RIZZOLI

Felice Picano

Glamour and books don’t often converge, but they did at Rizzoli, one of New York City’s greatest bookstores: a memoir by a writer (and Rizzoli manager) who lived the unchecked, wild life of a young gay man in pre-AIDS, post-Stonewall 1970s New York. More

IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY

On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood

Frida Berrigan

It Runs in the Family is a book about how parents can create lasting and meaningful bulwarks between their kids and the violence endemic in our culture. More

TALES OF TWO CITIES

The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York

John Freeman, editor

The stories in Tales of Two Cities mix fiction and reportage to convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side-by-side with people who have a stupefyingly different income. More

BLOOD SPLATTERS QUICKLY

The Collected Stories

Edward D. Wood, Jr.

Even if you think you don’t know him, you know him. Few in the Hollywood orbit have had greater influence; few have experienced more humiliating failure in their lifetime. Thanks in part to the biopic directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp and bearing his name, Ed Wood has become an icon of Americana. More

BLOOD SPLATTERS QUICKLY

Angora edition

Edward D. Wood, Jr.

The Angora edition features a faux angora sweater handcrafted to fit snugly on the paperback Blood Splatters Quickly.More

THE JIHADIS RETURN

ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising

Patrick Cockburn

In this explosive new book, renowned Middle East commentator Patrick Cockburn sets out how, by exploiting the repeated missteps of the West, jihadist organizations have come to create a caliphate that stretches from the Sunni heartlands in the north and west of Iraq through a broad swath of northeast Syria. More

WHEN GOOGLE MET WIKILEAKS

Julian Assange

Julian Assange and the chairman of Google Eric Schmidt debate the political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions engendered by the global network—and outline radically opposing perspectives. More

BOWIE

Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley melds personal narratives of how David Bowie lit up a dull teenage life in England’s suburbs with philosophical forays into the way authenticity and identity are turned inside out in the artist’s work. More

THE BIG DISCONNECT

Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet)

Micah L. Sifry

In his usual pithy, to-the-point style, Micah L. Sifry explores why data-driven politics and our digital overlords have failed or misled us, and how they can be made to serve us instead, in a real balance between citizens and state, independent of corporations. More

CUBA IN SPLINTERS

Eleven Stories from the New Cuba

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, editor

Sex and knife-fights, stutterers and addicts, losers and lost literary classics: welcome to a raw and genuine island universe closed to casual visitors. More

OLD WINE, BROKEN BOTTLE

Ari Shavit’s Promised Land

Norman G. Finkelstein

Like his landmark debunking of Joan Peters’s From Time Immemorial, Finkelstein’s clinical dissection of My Promised Land will be welcomed by those who yearn for a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict based on justice. More

THE PRICE OF EXPERIENCE

Writings on Living with Cancer

Mike Marqusee

After being diagnosed with multiple myeloma, writer and political activist Mike Marqusee came to realize that writing about his cancer provided a precious continuity with his life before contracting the disease. More

HORN!

The Collected Reviews

Kevin Thomas

Using his captivating illustrations and no more than a handful of words, decrypts some of the most intriguing books of our day for readers of The Rumpus: now seventy-five of his favorites are collected in one volume. More

TECHNOCREEP

The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy

Thomas P. Keenan

Technocreep is the definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door. More

CREDITOCRACY

And the Case for Debt Refusal

Andrew Ross

In this forceful, eye-opening survey, Andrew Ross contends that we are in the cruel grip of a creditocracy – where the finance industry commandeers our elected governments and where the citizenry have to take out loans to meet their basic needs. More

Gay Propaganda

Russian Love Stories

Edited by MASHA GESSEN and JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON

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Gay Propaganda offers an intimate window into the hardships faced by Russians on the receiving end of state-sanctioned homophobia. Here are tales of men and women in long-term committed relationships as well as those still looking for love; of those living in Russia or joining an exodus that is rapidly becoming a flood. More

GOINGS

In Thirteen Sittings

Gordon Lish

Goings: In Thirteen Sittings is Gordon Lish’s first completely original work in sixteen years, thirteen stories that mark the ongoing vitality of one of the era’s enduring scribes. More

HITLER’S GIRLS

A Novel

Emma Tennant and Hilary Bailey

In Hitler’s Girls, Emma Tennant and Hilary Bailey’s wry, atmospheric prose conjures a whirlwind adventure full of international intrigue, subtle humor, and terrifying, timely, political speculation. More

THE UNITED STATES VS. PVT. CHELSEA MANNING

A Graphic Account from Inside the Courtroom

Clark Stoeckley

Drawing in real time from inside the courtroom, artist and WikiLeaks activist Clark Stoeckley captures the extraordinary drama of The United States vs. Pvt. Chelsea Manning, one of the most secretive trials in American history. More

JOHN THE POSTHUMOUS

Jason Schwartz

John the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. Its themes are familiar — violence, betrayal, failure — its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful. More

ACORN

Yoko Ono

In Acorn, renowned artist and political activist Yoko Ono offers intriguing, enchanting exercises to open our eyes on better ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the planet we co-habit. Throughout the book are drawings by Yoko, many never before seen. More

ACORN

Collector’s Edition

Yoko Ono

The collector’s edition of Acorn is bound in cloth, boxed, and signed by the author in a limited edition of 285 copies. More

SALMA

Filming a Poet in Her Village

Rajathi Salma and Kim Longinotto

When Salma was 13 years old her family shut her away, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and sneaking them out of the house. More

AUTOPILOT

The Art & Science of Doing Nothing

Andrew Smart

A survivor of corporate-mandated “Six Sigma” training to improve efficiency, Smart has channeled his “loathing” of the time-management industry into a witty, informative and wide-ranging book that draws on the most recent research into brain power. Use it to explain to bosses, family, and friends why you need to relax – right now. More

HEMINGWAY LIVES!

Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today

Clancy Sigal

In this concise and sparkling account of the life and work of America’s most storied writer, National Book Award runner-up Clancy Sigal presents a passionate and persuasive case for the relevance of Ernest Hemingway to readers today. More

BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE

Pocket Edition

Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell

Sophisticated enough for veteran activists, accessible enough for newbies, this compact pocket edition of the bestselling Beautiful Trouble showcases the synergies between artistic imagination and shrewd political strategy in a generously illustrated volume can easily be slipped into your pocket as you head out to the streets. More

HACKING POLITICS

How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet

David Moon, Patrick Ruffini, and David Segal, Editors

Hacking Politics is a firsthand account of how a ragtag band of activists and technologists overcame a $90 million lobbying machine to defeat the most serious threat to Internet freedom in memory. More

GANGSTERISMO

The United States, Cuba and the Mafia, 1933 to 1966

Jack Colhoun

The complete and as-yet-untold story of the making and unmaking of a gangster state in Cuba, Gangsterismo establishes for the first time the integral, extensive role of mobsters in the Cuban exile movement.More

FREELOADING

How Our Insatiable Appetite for Free Content Starves Creativity

Chris Ruen

Freeloading is a book that takes a critical look at a near-pervasive phenomenon that involves almost everyone who taps a keyboard: beyond that, it’s a reminder of the truism that for every action there are consequences. What happens when we pirate a favorite work of art? And what, if anything, should be done about it? More

I TOLD YOU SO

Gore Vidal Talks Politics

Interviews with JON WIENER

In this series of interviews with writer and radio host Jon Wiener, Vidal grapples with matters evidently close to his heart: the history of the American Empire, the rise of the National Security State, and his own life in politics, both as a commentator and candidate. More

Julian Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyber-space to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave us. More

THE DREAM OF DOCTOR BANTAM

A Novel

Jeanne Thornton

“… Thornton’s Dr. Bantam is pure Americana, cinematic and idly mean. It’s lush and trashy. I guess it’s the most graphic-novelly feeling book about loss I can think of. It’s all punk heart, messily thudding.” —Eileen Myles More

MAD SCIENCE

The Nuclear Power Experiment

Joseph Mangano

In Mad Science, Joseph Mangano strips away the near-smothering layers of distortions and outright lies that permeate the massive propaganda campaigns on behalf of nuclear energy. More

OCCUPATION DIARIES

Raja Shehadeh

It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine, in this account by a celebrated Palestinian writer of daily life in the Occupied West Bank. More

Fifty Shades of Louisa May

A Memoir of Transcendental Sex

Louisa May Anonymous

Louisa May Alcott, author of the classic Little Women, consort of Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne, beloved icon of professors of American 19th-century literature and perhaps less loved by their legions of students, had a lusty side that was less academic, and more . . . transcendental than any of us knew. More

Why the Olympics Aren’t Good for Us, and How they Can Be

Mark Perryman

On the eve of the opening of the 30th Olympiad in London this summer, sports activist and commentator Mark Perryman presents a sharply critical take on the way the Games have been organized and an imaginative blueprint for how they could be improved. More

Beautiful Trouble

A Toolbox for Revolution

Assembled by Andrew Boyd with Dave Oswald Mitchell

Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. More

Not Working

People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy

DW Gibson

A book that takes the pulse of the victims of today’s financial crisis and delivers a prognosis combining an extraordinary mix of pathos, anger, solidarity and humor. More

Knowing Too Much

Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End

Norman G. Finkelstein

Traditionally, American Jews have been broadly liberal in their political outlook. Over the past half century, however, attitudes on one topic have stood in sharp contrast to this group’s generally progressive stance: support for Israel. More

What Gandhi Says

About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage

Norman G. Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein, who, drawing on extensive readings of Gandhi’s copious oeuvre and intensive reflection on the way that progress might be made in the seemingly intractable impasse of the Middle East, here sets out in clear and concise language the basic principles of Gandhi’s approach. More

Cruel

Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation

Sue Coe

Richly illustrated with full-color paintings and drawings throughout, Cruel conveys the terrible beauty, and intense suffering, of both the animals so sacrificed and the workers involved in their violent destruction. More

Cruel

Limited Edition

Sue Coe

Richly illustrated in a paper-bound case with silver foil stamping, this limited edition of 75 features full-color paintings and drawings throughout, maroon endpapers signed in silver by the author and color illustrations throughout. More

Drone Warfare

Killing by Remote Control

Medea Benjamin

“In this remarkably cogent and carefully researched book, Medea Benjamin makes it clear that drones are not just another high-tech military trinket. Drone Warfare sketches out the nightmare possibilities posed by this insane proliferation.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and DimedMore

The Passion of Bradley Manning

The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History

Chase Madar

“The mistreatment, trial, and fate of Private Bradley Manning will undoubtedly read like an obituary on the Obama years… Essayist and lawyer Chase Madar turned his sharp eye on it early. His will be the single must-read book on the case.” —Tom Engelhardt More

Ivyland

A Novel

Miles Klee

Debut novelist Miles Klee takes a landscape of drugs, decay, loss and, perhaps, hope, and manages to make the ensemble wryly funny. More

Rare Earth

A Novel

Paul Mason

A washed-up TV reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic Communist spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China. More

Occupying Wall Street

The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America

Writers for the 99%

“An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain.” —Jonathan Lethem More

The Torture Report

What the Documents Say About America’s Post-9/11 Torture Program

Larry Siems

“A chilling account of the use and justification of torture by the Bush Administration, made the more powerful by its dispassionate, forensic language.” —Salman Rushdie More

Alive Inside the Wreck

A Biography of Nathanael West

Joe Woodward

“Wildly funny, desperately sad, brutal and kind, furious and patient, there was no other like Nathanael West.” —Dorothy Parker More

Who Killed Che?

How the CIA Got Away With Murder

Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith

In compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world’s most storied revolutionary: Ernesto Che Guevara. More

The Global Warming Reader

Bill McKibben, Editor

“…Here’s what isn’t happening: an outpouring of political outrage forcing leaders around the globe to wean our world off the fossil fuels that cause this heating. In some sense, this anthology is an attempt to deal with that paradox.” —from the introduction, More

Goldstone Recants

Richard Goldstone Renews Israel’s License to Kill

Norman G. Finkelstein

On April 1 2011, the international jurist Richard Goldstone effectively disowned the massive evidence assembled in the United Nations’ report carrying his name that Israel had committed multiple war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in Gaza during its 2008-09 invasion. More

This Time We Went Too Far

Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion

Norman G. Finkelstein

The Israeli invasion of December 2008: in 22 days 1,400 Gazans were killed, several hundred on the first day alone. As Norman Finkelstein details, the profound injustice of the Israeli assault was widely recognized by bodies that it is impossible to brand as partial or extremist. More

THE RUDE PUNDIT’S ALMANACK 2012 EDITION

Lee Papa

“A tornado of a writer….a child of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Hunter S. Thompson.” —Margo Jefferson, The New York Times. Now in an updated and revised edition. More

TWEETS FROM TAHRIR

Egypt’s revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people who made it

Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns, Editors

“Without the new media the Egyptian Revolution could not have happened in the way that it did…. The turning moment had come – but it was the instant and wide-spread nature of the new media that made it possible to recognise the moment and to push it into such an effective manifestation.” —Ahdaf Soueif, from the foreword, More

WIKILEAKS AND THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY

Micah L. Sifry

“A report from the trenches where a wide array of small-d democracy and transparency activists are hard at work…using new tools and methods to open up previously closed and powerful institutions and make them more accountable.” —from the author’s introduction More

Forty years ago, Walt Kelly’s comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” More

AT THE TEA PARTY

The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right… And Why We Should Take It Seriously.

Laura Flanders, Editor

“A lively and informed expose… At the Tea Party stands out as a must-read for anyone interested in the turbulent future of American politics.” —The NationMore

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JENNY X

A Novel

Lisa Dierbeck

On the surface of things Nadia Orsini’s life appears comfortable and unremarkable – Ivy League educated, happily married to a doctor, a mother of three, and a moderately successful photographer. But not all is as it seems. More

“Thinking twice about our use of digital media, what our practices are doing to us, and what we are doing to each other, is one of the most important priorities people have today… Read this before and after you Tweet, Facebook, email or YouTube.” —Howard RheingoldMore

Rich People Things

Chris Lehmann

With illustrations by Peter Arkle

It’s never easy being rich: endless tax avoidance, the Sisyphean search for reliable domestic staff, the never-ending burden of surly stares from the Great Sea of the Unwashed as one goes about one’s rightful business. More

Inferno (a poet’s novel)

Eileen Myles

“I was completely stupefied by Inferno in the best of ways. In fact, I think I must feel kind of like Dante felt after seeing the face of God… I can tell you that Eileen Myles made me understand something I didn’t before. And really, what more can you ask of a novel, or a poet’s novel, or a poem, or a memoir, or whatever the hell this shimmering document is? Just read it.” — Alison BechdelMore

In Deep Water

The Anatomy of a Disaster, The Fate of the Gulf, and How to End Our Oil Addiction

Peter Lehner with Bob Deans

“If you’re looking for something that connects the dots between the BP oil disaster, the harm it’s done to the Gulf of Mexico and the people paying the price, this book is it… [In Deep Water] shows the way forward to protect this national treasure, safeguard our future and break our destructive addiction to oil.” —Robert Redford More

Midnight on the Mavi Marmara

The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Moustafa Bayoumi, Editor

“We have been attacked while in international waters. That means the Israelis have behaved like pirates … The whole action is illegal.” —Henning Mankell, aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla More

Collected Fictions

Gordon Lish

“Gordon Lish, famous for all the wrong reasons, has written some of the most fascinating American fiction of the last ten years.” —Don DeLilloMore